AAMA Installs Virginia Thomas, CMA (AAMA), as Secretary-Treasurer
GREENSBORO, N.C., September 27, 2019 (Newswire.com) - The American Association of Medical Assistants® (AAMA) met in Greensboro, North Carolina, for its 63rd Annual Conference. Virginia Thomas, CMA (AAMA), was installed as the 2019–2021 AAMA Secretary-Treasurer. In this capacity, Secretary-Treasurer Thomas, a resident of Virginia Beach, Virginia, represents medical assistants and CMAs (AAMA)® across the nation.
Medical assisting is one of the nation’s careers growing much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Medical assistants work in outpatient health care settings. Employers are seeking and recruiting these allied health professionals because of their uniquely diverse clinical and administrative patient-centered training.
Secretary-Treasurer Thomas states, “It is an honor to be elected by my peers to serve them in this role and to help advance the profession of medical assisting. Our profession plays an important role in the medical office by delivering quality health care to each patient we come in contact with.”
Thomas brings a great deal of experience to her office. She has worked in pediatric ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialty practices for more than 16 years at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia.
Thomas has served in many capacities for the AAMA, including as a 2015–2019 AAMA Trustee and member of several AAMA strategy teams and committees: Leadership Development, Membership Development, Bylaws and Resolutions, and Social Media, as well as others. Thomas has previously served as president of the Virginia Society of Medical Assistants.
The Certified Medical Assistant (AAMA)—or CMA (AAMA)—credential represents a medical assistant who has been credentialed through the Certifying Board (CB) of the AAMA. The CB of the AAMA was awarded accreditation by the International Accreditation Service (IAS) under ISO/IEC Standard 17024:2012, the global benchmark for personnel certification bodies, thus distinguishing the CMA (AAMA) from all other medical assisting certifications.
A rigorous credential, the CMA (AAMA) is the only medical assisting certification that requires postsecondary (college-level) education to be eligible to sit for the CMA (AAMA) Certification Exam. The National Board of Medical Examiners—responsible for many national exams for physicians—constructs and administers the exam. As a result, the reliability and validity of the CMA (AAMA) credential are of the highest order.
Certification status is a matter of public record and may be released. Every day the AAMA responds to more than 100 employer requests for CMA (AAMA) certification verification—for both current and potential employees.
The mission of the American Association of Medical Assistants is to provide the medical assistant professional with education, certification, credential acknowledgment, networking opportunities, scope-of-practice protection, and advocacy for quality patient-centered health care.
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Source: American Association of Medical Assistants
